DCHP-3

Boston ship

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an American ship.

Quotations

1846
Had anyone spoken to them of American ships or American people, he would not have been understood. We were only known as Boston ships and Boston people.
1859
They report, having lately visited Victoria, . . . that four Boston ships were here trading furs.
1964
. . . he [Geo. Simpson] decided the Hudson's Bay Company should extend its operations along the Pacific Coast and end the competition of the Boston ships.